Cronkite (116 page)

Providence Journal
, 500

Prudential Insurance Company of America, 191

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 500, 554, 555, 558, 576, 578, 617, 632, 648, 652, 666

public service programs, 610

Pucinski, Roman, 403

Pulitzer Prize, 232

Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age, The
(Barber), 536

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, 13

Purple Pup, The
(school newspaper), 26, 29

Pyle, Ernie, 170

Quinn, William, 305

Quint, Bert, 361, 384

quiz shows, television, 153, 155, 158, 166, 186–87

Rabel, Ed, 418

racial segregation, 24–25, 177

radio, 291

   broadcast radio during 1930s, 30–31, 37–38, 40

   coverage of 1950 election night on, 154

   as the medium of World War II, 113

   news coverage shift from radio to TV, 165

   radio commentators, 30, 47

   radio networks, 40, 115

   radio news, 47–49, 71, 115, 149–50

   Sirius XM Radio, 660

   wire service news to, 30, 54, 71

   
See also
CBS Radio

Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), 207, 601

Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner, 455–56

radio career, Cronkite’s

   KCMO, Kansas City, MO, 46–52

   KMBC, Kansas City, MO, 146, 147–49, 151–52

   KNOW, Austin, TX, 40–41

   radio voice, 31, 46, 146–47

   salaries, 146, 147

   sports broadcasts, 40–41, 49, 59, 85

   WKY, Oklahoma City, OK, 59

Raisky, Hugh, 323–24

Rand Corporation, 458, 459, 460

Randolph
, U.S.S., 234

Rand, Seymour, 452

Rash, Bryson, 157

Rather, Dan, 287, 295, 305, 306, 326, 349, 484, 509, 514, 558, 620

   adjectives for Cronkite, 509–10

   at Betsy Cronkite’s funeral, 644

   and brutal treatment at 1968 DNC, 402–3

   and civil rights movement, 328, 332, 396

   on Cronkite, 327

   Cronkite-Rather feud, 595–97, 604, 644, 645, 646

   and Cronkite’s death, 660

   
Dan Rather Reports
, 644

   dismissal from CBS, 641–43

   with HDNet, 643–44

   as host of
60 Minutes
, 533

   and Kennedy assassination, 265, 266, 269, 272, 274, 277, 278, 283

   and 1960 political conventions, 205, 206, 208, 209–10

   and 1964 political conventions, 309, 402–3

   and Nixon, 441, 442, 467, 468, 471, 481, 496, 502, 505, 506

   Peabody Award to, 283

   as possible successor to Cronkite, 532, 537

   replaces Cronkite on
Evening news
, 548–51

   
See also
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Ray, James Earl, 409

Rayburn, Sam, 148–49, 162

Reader’s Digest
, 412

Reagan, Ronald, 28, 365, 455, 496, 562, 605

   attempted assassination of, 551–52

   Cronkite-Reagan interview, 572–73

   and fortieth anniversary of D-day, 572–73

   and 1976 elections, 517, 518

   and 1980 elections, 537, 538, 540, 541, 543

   and 1984 elections, 573, 576–77

   and USIA blacklist, 571–72, 620

Reasoner, Harry, 194–95, 229, 258, 306, 310, 318, 351, 384, 435, 516, 523, 648

Redford, Robert, 577

Red Scare
(Carleton), 597

Red Skelton Show, The
(CBS TV), 184

Redstone rockets, 227, 228, 229, 236, 337

Reed, James, 25

Reed, John, 639

Reed, Ralph, 623

Reich, Charles, 437

René Dubos Center for Human Environment, 438

Rennie, Missie, 572

Reporter’s Life, A
(Cronkite), 15, 20, 40, 109, 139, 313, 355, 374, 461, 513, 597, 622, 656

“Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?” (CBS News), 369, 371, 374, 375, 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570

Reporting Live
(Stahl), 476, 504

“Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy,” Murrow’s, 176, 178

Republican National Convention

   CBS’s bugging of credentials committee, 164

   first televised, 1948, 141

   1928 (Kansas City), 26

   1952 (Chicago), 159–66

   1956 (San Francisco), 183–85, 186, 187

   1960 (Los Angeles), 203–6, 208–11

   1964 (San Francisco), 304–6, 307–15

   1968 (Miami), 399–400

   1972 (Miami), 471–72

   1976 (Kansas City), 515–16, 517–18

   1980 (Detroit), 540–42

   1984 (Dallas), 576–77

Reston, James, 360, 539, 599

Retirement Living TV, 653

Reuters, 134

Reynolds, Frank, 423

Rhea, Louise, 37

Rhode Island Sound, 243

Rhodes, David, 666

Rice Hotel, Houston, TX, 266

Rich, Frank, 639

Richard Hudnut Corporation, 51

Richman, Joan F., 336–37, 396, 413, 415

Richmond News Leader, The
, 189, 294

Richmond, Ray, 619

Ri, Duong Van, 362

right-wing conservatives, 623

Robb, Lynda Johnson, 393, 415

Robertson, Pat, 623, 631, 636

Robinson, Hubbell, 160, 163

Robinson, Jackie, 513

Rockefeller Center, NBC studios in, 253–54, 279

Rockefeller, Nelson, 307, 311, 365, 391

rocket launches, 121, 191–92, 194–95, 197, 224, 227–28, 336, 338–39, 412, 414

Roe v. Wade
, 522, 598

Rogers, Buddy, 20

Rogers, Roy, 15

Rolling Stone
magazine, 135, 592, 593, 595

Rollins College, 444

Rome, Italy, 633–35

   1960 Summer Olympics in, 202–3

Romney, George W., 307, 365

Rooney, Andy, 574, 582, 590, 618, 621, 638

   archival papers of, 648

   on Cronkite, 147, 148–49, 195, 200, 242, 293, 357, 367, 451, 557, 586, 600, 613, 636, 642

   and Cronkite during World War II, 87–88, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98–99, 102, 107

   and Cronkite on speaking engagements, 618–19

   and Cronkite’s death, 661–62

   death of, 662

   memoir, 622

   on
60 Minutes
, 524

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 638

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 25, 31, 55, 71–72, 76, 81, 83, 89, 90, 128

Roosevelt, Theodore, 13, 55, 303, 564

Roper, Elmo, 184

Rose, Charlie, 666

Roseland Ballroom, New York City, 601–2

Rosenthal, Abe, 459, 652

Rostow, Walter, 379, 459

Rostropovich, Mstislav, 620

Rotary Club, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 148

Rowan, Steve, 331

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
(NBC TV), 217

Royal Air Force (RAF), 89, 90–91, 126

Royal Canadian Air Force, 125

Rubin, Jerry, 402, 406

Ruby, Jack, 279–80, 282

Ruckelshaus, William, 431–32, 436

Rudd, Hughes, 312–13, 330, 331, 514–15, 520

Rudolph, Wilma, 203

Rumsfeld, Donald, 342, 636

Rush, Deborah, 579, 580, 656–57

Rusk, Dean, 350, 351, 379

Russel, Tony, 277

Russell, Charles, 174, 175

Russell, Richard, 294

Russia.
See
Soviet Union

Russo, Michael A., 185

Ryan, Bill, 273, 275

Ryan, Cornelius, 117–18

Sable, Ken, 559

Sadat, Anwar, 501, 527–30, 560–61

Safer, Morley, 302, 346–49, 351, 352, 361, 384, 398, 441, 510, 550–51, 574, 638, 642, 648, 659

Safire, William, 445, 529

Sagan, Carl, 423, 555

sailing, 243–45, 306, 317, 427, 439, 471, 480, 501, 524, 526–27, 535, 539, 579–80, 581–82, 594, 599, 602, 608, 620, 625–26, 649

Sakowitz Department Store, Houston, TX, 27

Salant, Richard “Dick,” 406, 434, 450, 462, 524

   and AFTRA strike, 358

   and
Apollo 11
, 413, 422

   and CBS News involvement with the CIA, 519

   and Cronkite-Schorr dispute over Nixon, 506–7

   and Cronkite’s comedy show appearance, 498, 499

   and Cronkite’s
Evening News
sign-off, 262–63

   and Cronkite’s Pan Am junkets, 453–54

   and Cronkite’s successor, 532

   death of, 616–17

   Friendly as replacement for, 284, 354

   and Friendly’s resignation, 354, 356

   half-hour format for
Evening News
, 256, 257

   and Kennedy assassination, 269

   Leonard as replacement for, 531

   and 1968 political conventions, 365, 399

   and political correctness of
CBS Evening News
, 331

   as president of CBS News, 210, 248–49, 250, 284, 290, 617

   promotions given by, 465–66

   removal as head of CBS News, 292–93

   replaces Mickelson, 248

   retirement from CBS News, 533

   and Vietnam War, 361–62, 368–69, 376

   and Watergate scandal, 475, 477–78

Salinger, Pierre, 259, 260, 261, 278, 390

Salisbury, Harrison, 94–95, 100, 105–6, 137, 352

Salt Lake Tribune
, 321

Sam Houston Hall, Houston, TX, 25

Sanchez, Manolo, 466

San Diego Union-Tribune
, 448

San Francisco, California, 469–70

San Francisco Chronicle
, 92, 469, 606

San Francisco Examiner
, 306

San Jacinto High School, Houston, TX, 29–33, 35, 37, 52, 102

Sapulpa, Oklahoma, 16–17, 19

Satellite Education Service, 554

Saturday Evening Post
, 20, 92, 181, 231

Saturday News and Weather
(CBS News), 171

Saturday Night Live
(NBC TV), 217, 526

Saturn 1B
rocket, 336, 338

Saturn V
rocket, 338, 412, 414

Saudi Arabia, 604

Sauter, Van Gordon, 565, 566–67, 568, 578, 595, 596

Save the Birds
(Peterson), 438

Savile Club, London, 105

Sawyer, Diane, 377, 383, 499, 586

Sawyer, Forrest, 607

Schakne, Robert, 374, 375, 384, 484

Scheer, Julian, 411

Scheffler, Phil, 368

Schenkel, Chris, 202

Schieffer, Bob, 146–47, 306–7, 432, 510, 512, 549, 575, 586, 620, 660, 661

Schirra, Wally, 408, 413–14, 415, 417, 418, 421, 426, 433, 660–61

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 454

Schneider, Jack, 477

Schneider, John, 354, 355

Schoenbrun, David, 209, 210, 249

Schorr, Daniel, 176, 194, 326, 485, 496, 514, 519

   and Buchanan lawsuit, 447–48

   with CNN, 508–9

   Cronkite-Schorr dispute over Nixon, 505–9

   and Nixon, 441, 445, 471, 474, 476, 478, 481

   report on Goldwater’s Germany trip, 304–6

Schoumacher, David, 425

Schrader, Marty, 115

Schumacher, David, 337

Schweitzer, Albert, 522

Schwerner, Michael, 297, 301

Science and Survival
(Commoner), 433

Scott, Denton, 95, 96

Scott, George C., 537

Scranton, William, 305, 309, 311

Scripps, Edward Willis, 42, 84

Scripps Howard News Service, 43, 58

“Sea Fever” (Masefield), 662

Seale, Bobby, 406

Sea of Tranquility (Moon), 412

Secrets
(Ellsberg), 459

Secret Service, U.S.

   in Cairo, 564

   and Kennedy assassination, 267, 268, 269, 273, 276, 279

Sedia, Dick, 376

See It Now
(CBS News), 157, 177, 178, 219, 291, 293, 335

Segal, Mark Allan, 494–96

Selassie, Haile, 280

“Selling of the Pentagon, The,” 449–51, 460–61

Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, 1966, 354

Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, 465, 466

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 617, 633–36

Serling, Rod, 200

Sevareid, Eric, 299, 359, 408, 508, 509, 512

   as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 247

   Carson interview, 429

   
CBS Evening News
commentaries, 257, 294, 312, 335, 615

   with CBS Radio, 154

   death of, 615, 616

   and Hiroshima, 130–31

   and Kennedy assassination, 282, 283

   as one of the Murrow Boys, 61, 63–64, 105, 107, 124, 141, 178, 209

   and 1964 political conventions, 311, 315, 318

   and 1968 political conventions, 400

   and Nixon, 467, 469, 480, 502, 505, 506

   retirement from CBS News, 530–31

   on
What’s My Line?
, 186–87

Seven Days
(book/CBS), 236

S-for-Sugar
(B-17), 109

Shadel, Bill, 154, 155, 180

Shafer, Jack, 384

Shah of Iran, 534

Shales, Tom, 280, 518, 541, 654

Shamick, John, 490

Shanahan, Eileen, 148

Shaplen, Robert, 199

Shaw, Bernard, 482–85, 487, 600, 605, 606, 612–13

Sheehan, Neil, 346–47, 381, 459

Sheets, Bob, 109

Shepard, Alan B., 227–29, 236, 332, 337, 413

Sherr, Lynn, 338

Shirer, William L., 48, 61, 64, 131

Shoo Shoo Baby
(aircraft), 109

Shoss, Fay, 33

Shover, Bill, 583

“Showdown in Iran” (CBS News), 534

Shribman, David, 657

Shriver, Sargent, 472

Shultz, George P., 609, 631

Sidey, Hugh, 536–37

Sidney Lanier Middle School, Houston, TX, 26, 29

Siemens, 129

silent majority, 445

Silent Spring
(Carson), 429, 430, 438–39

Silverman, Ed, 273

Simmons, Jim, 46, 51–52

Simon, Bob, 606–7

Simon, Carly, 646

Simon, Joanna, 624, 644–45, 646–47, 649, 653–54, 663

Simon, Paul, 513

Simon, Peter, 650

Simon, Richard, 646

Singiser, Frank, 219